WITH the half-term holiday behind us, workers who stockpiled their holiday entitlement this year are set to grab some spectacular bargains in the run-up to Christmas, a travel website says.

Entering the final third of the year, the average Briton still has two weeks of annual leave (10.7 days) remaining, says TravelSupermarket.com. That means many Britons could take two weeks in the sun, but only 11 per cent hope to take a fortnight’s holiday.

Holidays these days have become a complex matter of using days here and there to avoid the office.

With no more bank holidays due before Christmas, 51 per cent of Britons will add bolt-on days to weekends and add ‘a day here and there’ to interrupt the four-month slog between the end of summer and the Christmas break.